Africa Agri-Food Development Programme 2025/2026 for agri-food companies in Africa. – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: August 15, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025/2026 Africa Agri-Food Development Programme. The Africa Agri-Food Development Programme (AADP) is Ireland’s flagship initiative supporting the function of the personal sector in sustainable meals techniques growth.

It acts as a catalyst to allow Irish and African companies to discover and seize thrilling Opportunities to carry their experience to Africa – to develop new markets and to contribute to strengthening mutual commerce between Ireland and Africa.

Through matched grant funding the programme affords Irish and African agri-businesses of all sizes a useful alternative to develop and harness the potential from modern partnerships with companies in sub-Saharan African nations.

Type of enterprise

All candidates have to be agri-food companies which have been registered/integrated in Ireland or one of many 19 eligible African nations, for at the very least 24 months previous to submitting their AADP application.

Businesses may be of any measurement or construction, together with:

Micro enterprises	SMEs
Companies	Sole merchants
Cooperatives	Farming teams
Partnerships	Social enterprises
Registered business farming networks	Any different construction

Eligible African nations

The eligible African nations are:

Botswana	Cóte d’Ivoire	Ethiopia
Ghana	Kenya	Lesotho
Liberia	Namibia	Nigeria
Malawi	Mozambique	Rwanda
Senegal	Sierra Leone	South Africa
Tanzania	Uganda	Zambia
Zimbabwe

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Proposal necessities

All proposals should:

• Be business in nature
• Be applied in a number of of the 19 eligible African nations
• Demonstrate how they are going to contribute strongly to the sustainable growth of the meals system, together with alignment wherever doable with precedence areas of Ireland’s worldwide growth coverage, A Better World, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, throughout the African nation or nations chosen
• Explain clearly why public funds are important to finance the initiative, together with to leverage or entry different sources of finance in future
• Show why the applicant or candidates are effectively suited to ship on the proposed challenge, on the subject of their expertise, information and expertise, and the way these relate to the challenge aims, actions and deliverables
• Demonstrate that every one candidates have acceptable governance, monetary administration and fraud prevention techniques in place
• Demonstrate how the challenge intends to share, develop and/or leverage mutual experience between Ireland and Africa in the precise challenge space
• Indicate how the challenge intends to generate or strengthen mutual commerce between Ireland and Africa

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Supporting documentation

All purposes have to be accompanied by supporting documentation, together with:

• an Irish Tax Clearance Certificate – which all candidates, together with African candidates, should apply for and obtain from the Irish Revenue Commissioners for inclusion with their application
• a challenge finances with breakdown of spending, funding supply, actions and tools
• a challenge implementation with calendar of foremost steps and actions required to ship the challenge aims
• a plan for collaboration over the timeline of the challenge

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Africa Agri-Food Development Programme